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Gracia

Playful antics, capers, or tricks. This definition relies on a pun: while a single trick is a Gracia, a group of monkeys performing them is described by the plural form, which sounds identical to the word for thank you. (In the Dominican Republic, the final s is often dropped or aspirated, making the words sound exactly the same).

At the zoo the daughter watches the monkeys, jumping, hitting each other and doing stunts, and asks her mother: Mom, what are they doing? The mother answers: Gracia, daughter... they are doing Gracia.

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República Dominicanaby MiguelWord of the day · July 27, 2008

Gracia

A sarcastic retort used when someone drops the final s from the word gracias. It plays on the double meaning of Gracia, which is both a slangy way to say thanks and a word for a funny trick or antic (Dominican speakers often omit final consonants, and this phrase mocks that habit by implying the speaker is performing a trick like an animal instead of being polite).

A young man helps a man, who was dropping his s, push his car. When they finish, the man says to the youth: Gracia. The youth responds: Gracia is what a monkey does.

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